Appendix C. Installing the DataHub to Run as a Service

If you change from one mode to the other, the configuration will change. Why? Because when you install the DataHub as a service, it runs with system permissions instead of user permissions. It does not look in the user's Application Files directory for its configuration, because there is no user when it starts up. So, it picks up its configuration from the installation directory. Consequently, if you install it as a normal program, configure it, then install it as a service, the DataHub will not pick up any configuration that you created when it was running as a normal program. If you install as a service, configure, then install as a normal user, the first time you run the DataHub as a normal user it will make a copy of the configuration files in the installation directory (the files used by the service) into the user's Application Files directory and thereafter the two configurations will be distinct.

Bottom line: make a decision about whether to install as a service or not, and stick to it.